This course offers a seminar-based reading of texts in the ancient Greco-Roman world associated with the person and historical legacy of the 5th-c. BCE Greek physician Hippocrates. Long considered the “father” of scientific medicine in the west, the texts that belong to the ‘Hippocratic’ tradition launched profound and abiding questions about what the body is (in health and in sickness), what it means to be ’embodied’, how our bodies are related to the world ‘outside’ ourselves and in what ways human consciousness (also known as ‘the soul’) is to related to the body.
